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Windows 7: Russian government decides all new PCs will use ARM chips

Personally, I don't blame them. Intel has had "spy-ready" hardware and firmware in their chipsets since 2006. It even has it's own memory and communications controller. It's called Intel Management Engine Interface and uses the PCI Simple Communications Controller. It also uses the Host Embedded Controller Interface (HECI) and Active Management Technology (AMT).

I don't know about the other items, but I've previously read about that AMT and (IMO) it is a cyber-criminal's Wet Dream.

Computer randomly decides when it wants to sleep or notHell, 7forums.
This issue has been plaguing me for months, I've tried several solutions across various forums and google results and nothing has helped, it even caused me to re-install windows, guess what? It didn't help.
What will happen is that:
About 50% of the time I send my computer to...

Performance & Maintenance

Can I mix different different ram chipsI bought an old HP-Compaq dc5800 microtower from a friend to replace my even older pc. My question is, the machine at the moment has 2 X 1GB DDR2 PC2-640 and I would like to additionally install the 2 X 1GB DDR PC2700 from the old pc, can I do this or would it fry my "new" machine?
N.B. I got the...

Hardware & Devices

After a few hours, my new PC build decides to stop coming onSo here's the deal... I'm relatively new to PC building and this is the first PC I've built from the ground up. I spent a very long time researching which parts I was going to get, so I feel awful that it's no longer working. I have a few guesses as to what's causing the problem, but I'd love to...

Hardware & Devices

2nd Monitor Decides when to turn on Radeon HD 2400 PROHey I have a slight problem and was wondering if anyone here has had a similar issue...
I am running a dual display with two Acer AL1916W Monitors using a DVI to 2 VGA splitter (y-type)... it worked flawlessly the first few months but now it doesnt. The 2nd monitor will not "boot" and stays in...